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[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (4 children)

1.) Law to make me eternal king of the city.
2.) Law to mandate my exorbitant salary and discretionary fund.
3.) Law to stipulate the various details of my city-provided harem.

You guys suck at genies.

[–] meco03211 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your town is now bankrupt.

[–] idunnololz 7 points 6 months ago

Ice town costs ice clown his town crown.

[–] LesserAbe 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would mandate all sidewalks replaced by moving sidewalks.

Also I would wish for infinite towns

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

"The Roads Must Roll"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think the state or federal government might step in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I'm in Utah. I'm just returning the place to its roots.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Ban cars in the main street. I'm sure you can learn to walk one block. You might even find you enjoy it when you are not having constant near death experiences with cars.

All those parking spaces are now spaces for pop-up businesses. Food vans, shipping containers that are now selling vegetables, outdoor dining, art fairs, etc.

You can now legally live in those apartments that people used to live in built above the existing shops, before that was made illegal for reasons unknown.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'll add some aspects for the areas outside of the main CBD street:

  • Separated, protected bike lanes that run the entire city with easy access from the suburban parts
  • Traffic calming measures including speed bumps, reduced (and narrower) lanes, continuous sidewalks, and speed limit reduced to 30 km/h (around 20 mph)
  • Free public transport
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
  1. Progressive vacancy tax - the longer a commercial site sits empty, the more the tax is.
  2. Abolish most residential height and density limits.
  3. Rent control
[–] LesserAbe 12 points 6 months ago

I like the progressive vacancy tax!

[–] qwrty 4 points 6 months ago

Ah, but 1 and 2 could be done with the Land Value Tax

[–] TheDoctorDonna 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
  1. If you buy it, live in it- no more commodification of homes.

  2. zero tolerance driving policies that prioritize pedestrians and cyclists and blatantly discourage driving.

  3. safe supply. Anything that was going to be disposed of in police evidence is to be tested and used to start the program. Can't get people to a place where they want to be treated if they're dead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So, no such thing as renting? If I move to the city I'm just homeless until I can afford a house?

[–] TheDoctorDonna 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Rentals are to be run by the city at a subsidized rate of no more than 30% of the income for the household, regardless of the space required.

We don't need landlords to fulfill housing needs. They can go get real jobs.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 4 points 6 months ago

God I would love the pig shit fucker landlord I have to work a single day in his life. Inherited 17 houses.

[–] gAlienLifeform 21 points 6 months ago
  1. Property and income tax funded high speed internet available to all persons and businesses in city limits free of charge. Also, power, water, waste management, and any licensing and registration fees are all eliminated and they get funded by property and income taxes instead (also fees for public copiers at court houses, libraries, etc).

  2. Sleeping in public is legal, sleeping in parked cars is legal, cars can't be towed from the parking lots of businesses outside of the businesses' operating hours, and no person can be denied use of a public bathroom (regardless of whether or not they purchased anything).

  3. All businesses and public buildings will be made handicap accessible through city funded grants and fines for non compliant property owners, and rental property owners will be required to make any accessibility modifications a tenant might require.

[–] toiletobserver 20 points 6 months ago

A perpetual levy to keep the schools funded, and it floats with CPI or some other index to remain relevant.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Public oversight of police.
Outlaw police unions.
Ranked choice voting.

[–] Delphia 15 points 6 months ago

Free public transport, buildings/residences incur additional council rates when sitting empty, better permitting system for food trucks on public property.

[–] Godric 14 points 6 months ago
  1. Term Limits (Goodbye family-connected people who haven't done shit in 20 years)
  2. Church Is Now a Library (Goodbye assholes who expelled my friend's fiance for cohabitation, while the minister cohabitated with his girlfriend)
  3. Anticorruption (Certain people on the council rent their properties/sell things to the town at "market rates")
[–] Mango 11 points 6 months ago

No income properties for single family homes. Punishable by jail.

Companies will now have their minimum pay decided by majority vote for up to 70% of the previous year's profit divided by the number of people employed and companies are decommissioned when they're found to exploit people in large scale.

People have to give me specifically a blowjob on request. I mean universal basic income. That.

[–] Smokeydope 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is this lah lah land where I can pass any law I want locally without it being superseded by state or fed? Then

1.recreational pot is now legal with 32 plant homegrow limit

  1. Psylocibin mushrooms are now legal and can be sold wherever alcohol, tobacco, and weed are sold including state run stores

  2. HOAs are outlawed, you can now do whatever the fuck you like with your own properties and not pay yet another yearly fee to an at-best-incompentent-at-worst-malicious burocracy. I have to deal with enough of those already

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

More bike lanes in the center, especially for long distances

More rail infrastructure in the outer parts, especially an outer ring by light rail or subway

Better funding for Schools and stuff

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Return downtown's roads to being footpaths.

Allow safe biking on the sidewalks

Free electricity and water

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No one eligible for social security can hold office.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

the monkey's paw curls Social Security is abolished

[–] meco03211 5 points 6 months ago

Fine. No one eligible for Medicare. That can't possibly go...

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[–] Chainweasel 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
  1. Term limits, the same 3 families have been running my town for 40 years.
  2. a bypass, we're a very small town with a huge tourist industry, and the township refuses to approve a bypass because it would divert traffic away from the tourist trap, regardless of the fact that it takes half an hour to cross a town with a single traffic light.
  3. investment of the tax money into the community. Again, we have a huge tourist industry and a shit ton of money comes into town from it, yet our roads are absolutely terrible, half the town doesn't have sidewalks, and honestly I don't know where any of the money goes.
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)
  • Mixed Zoning
  • All streets/roads must have sidewalks and separated bike lanes
  • UBI
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[–] banneryear1868 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Naturalized Landscapes: Reduce budget by naturalizing all public landscapes, alter "unkempt yard" qualifications, incentivize against lawns.

Smart Density Overhaul: Destroy developer's abilities to build detached home subdivisions, build public homes that are integrated with landscapes and require less upkeep from homeowners, maximize leisure and the things that actually make people happy, roads are... not what they currently are. Subsidize rural taxi service.

Industry Perks: Tax incentives for industrial employers relative to employee's salaries. Similar remote work incentives for professional-managerial employers. A study on commercial office use will be conducted to determine how to best move in to new work arrangements.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Winner winner chick fucking en dinner right here

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
  1. Ranked choice voting
  2. Real estate reform law regulating and limiting the powers of home owners’ associations, and banning corporate ownership of single-family dwellings
  3. UBI for the un-housed and homeless
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not called UBI if it's not for everyone.

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[–] Not_mikey 7 points 6 months ago (6 children)
  1. Ban cars
  2. Legalize drugs
  3. Basic income for unhoused and impoverished funded by said drug taxes
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[–] RBWells 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Mandate funding of public transportation at a level that makes it easier to use than a car.

Make roads (all roads that are already built) available for that transit, any existing road can become a trolley line or train.

Set the footprint of the county where it is, already there is too much sprawl so no more expansion allowed, build where there are buildings only, all green space preserved, fund to buy back land for parks when density increases, and once "greened", no longer available to build on.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Phase in a ban on consumer grade gas powered outdoor equipment. Electric only.

Revise residential parking to allow more in line with densification.

Crack down on negligent property owners that let properties get run down. Especially developers that let properties sit,.and most especially with houses that just get boarded up and the property goes to hell.

[–] cashews_best_nut 4 points 6 months ago
  • City cycle network.
  • Tram lines for entire Greater Manchester including my area.
  • Better funding for mental health care.
[–] reddig33 4 points 6 months ago

You should post a federal version of this question after this post calms down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Land Value Tax. Election by sortition. I'll have to think about the last one.

[–] LesserAbe 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is there a mayor or a council? I admit don't know ins and outs of sortition. I kind of like it, but not sure I have the stomach for a single major role left to chance. Seems more plausible that a group of people selected by chance would still function.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Right, I guess this isn't the same everywhere. I was thinking of the mayor as a member of and accountable to city council.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The current laws aren't really enforced so none

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